ashram
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#69,596
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
ashram is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ermitage où les gourous et autres mahatmas vivent loin de l’agitation du monde. Pronounced \a.ʃʁam\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ashram |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʃʁam\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ashram is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʃʁam\. Corpus data places it at rank #69,596 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ashram in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ashram, spelled A-S-H-R-A-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ermitage où les gourous et autres mahatmas vivent loin de l’agitation du monde.
- 2Communauté de chercheurs spirituels autour d'une autorité spirituelle (principalement dans la tradition indienne ou hindoue).
- 3Dernière phase de la vie selon la tradition védique ; après avoir accompli ses charges familiales, l'homme ou la femme se consacre à la recherche spirituelle (paix intérieure et sagesse), généralement en se retirant du monde, mais aussi en joignant une communauté spirituelle.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #69,596 in French
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